What's Up?

What's Up?

November 03, 1989

HU ARTIST

HAMPTON - Master printer Ron Adams has joined the Hampton University faculty for the 1989-1990 academic year as the school's first artist in residence.

Adams has 25 years of experience as a professional printer, specifically in hand printing. He has collaborated on works with Josef Albers, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Judy Chicago, Luis Jimenez, Frank Stella, John Biggers and Charles White.

Adams the 1985-87 gubernatorial appointee to the New Mexico Art Commission, and he has lectured widely in the United States.

During his residency, Adams will create four sets of limited edition prints, schedule open studio time with students and serve as a guest lecturer and artist.

MOROCCO AND MORE

VIRGINIA BEACH - "One Night in Morocco," the 1989 black tie gala for the Center for the Arts, will be Saturday.

The price is $200 per couple and includes "dancing, dice and delectables." Invitations are available by calling 425-0000.

GRANT DEADLINE

RICHMOND - The Virginia Commission for the Arts has announced a January deadline for a new funding category, the Performing Arts Endowment Matching Program.

Through this program, organizations may apply to match the interest on their endowments. Applicants must be professional Virginia performing arts organizations. If awarded, matching funds may be used to pay performers' salaries, or to add to the principal of the endowment.

WILLIAMSBURG - Playwright Arthur Giron will speak on "The Playwright in the Regional Theatre" at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Dodge Room of Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall, The College of William and Mary.

Giron's new play, "Becoming Memories," is this season's second main stage production for the William and Mary Theatre.

Giron, who created the script with actors from the Illusion Theatre of Minneapolis, is working on the production with guest artist and director Michael Rupert and the student cast.

The college is seeking vintage pictures from area residents' family albums for a display that will be mounted in connection with the play. The pictures, to be displayed in the lobby of Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall, will be protected in a glass case and returned unharmed. Donors will receive two tickets to a dress rehearsal Nov. 15. Call 253-4395 for information.

"Becoming Memories" will be presented at 8:15 p.m. Nov. 16-18 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 19. Tickets are $5, available beginning Tuesday by calling 221-2655 or 221-2674.